Customer Ratings & Reviews

Purchased this item along with my iMac & Macbook Air, had to have it. Think I've used only once. Extremely easy to set-up & matches with all my mac products.

Apple - SuperDrive 8x External USB Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive - Silver Love it easy to use

Excellent quality. Machined aluminum. Everything and more than you would expect. Product in stock. Great add on for a newer mac that needs an external drive.

The silver design is nice but the cord should be longer.

The drive works great with my MacBook Pro. It is a perfect marriage of technology and innovation. Make sure you get the right adapter for connecting it to your MacBook.

Wanted to have an external drive to access CD's and DVD's I have. The drive works great so far. Would recommend it.

I bought two pop-out drives of lesser brands, but caved and got this one. I don't use an optical drive often. When I do, I want it to work.

When I bought my Mac I was pretty bummed to see that it did not include a DVD drive. It was a bummer to have to spend more money to get one but it is very easy to use and no issues at all.

I needed another external drive because my computer drive stopped working. It's easy to just plug into an Apple computer and easy installation!

This drive works great, but I had to pull out the help book in order to figure out how to set it up. At first when I plugged it in I couldn't get it to show up on the computer. You have to go into a specific drive in order to see it and then in order to eject the disk you also have to find the eject button on the computer rather than the drive having an easy button. I also thought at first it didn't have power because you have to force the disk in almost all the way before the power kicks on and pulls the disk in the rest of the way.

The new desktops don’t have DVD/CD drives any more and this is the simplest way to load all those old CD’s. Great unit- no software, no apps, just plug and use.

Awesome product for when you still need to use some DVD or CDs... Unit is slim and sleek and runs off of USBpower so no need for a power supply.

The Apple external hard drive was purchase because the MacBook Air did not have a r/w disc drive. But in todays world who uses disc? So now I can save and back up my MacBook on the external hard drive.

The new laptops do not include at disk drive so the superdrive is a necessity for me. I am a photographer and have thousands of photos on DVDs that I am constantly going back to and retrieving old images.

Got my wife a Mac Mini M2 to replace her old and failing 27" iMac and needed to have this for playing DVDs and burning photos and data to CD/DVD. One issue we have is that it has to be directly connected to the Mac Mini. Even with a powered hub we were told it needed power. An expansion dock is probably in our future to add more connectivity and storage options.

This product is a great product, it's very easy to use, not too expensive, and worth it if you don't have a disc drive!

Total plug and play. Some reviewers had trouble ejecting a disc. It was straightforward and not an issue at all. Best Buy's price and free shipping was less expensive than the Apple store

My older laptops had internal drives. Having this external is no issue as I get most of my content online. The thickness saved is worth the extra couple of steps to hook up and play a CD/DVD

Unfortunately, modern Macbooks don't have an internal CD/DVD drive but this works like a charm. This drive is very user friendly with my MacBook pro.

Works great with my iMac. It confused me because it doesn't show up in finder or on the desktop until you put a cd in it. Spent a lot of time trying to find it but it doesn't appear until something is in it. Other than that it works as expected.